Brief Life History of William Fidkin
When William Fidkin Ashton was born on 27 February 1906, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, George Savage Ashton, was 35 and his mother, Leah Rebecca Fidkin, was 34. He married Ethel Bird on 25 December 1933, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in San Gabriel Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He died on 3 April 1996, in Redlands, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Rose Hill, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- William F Ashton, "United States 1950 Census"
- William Fidkin Ashton, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- William Fidkin Ashton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
1908 · The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot
Being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot dates to the more prosperous era in the history of American railroad travel. Originally called the Union Station, it was jointly constructed by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroads and the Oregon Short Line. The platforms behind the station ran north-to-south, parallel to the first main line built in the Salt Lake Valley. When Amtrak was formed in 1971, it took over the passenger services at the station, but all trains were moved to the Rio Grande station after it joined Amtrak. In January 2006, The Depot was opened as a shopping center that housed shops, restaurants and music venues.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called, especially Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester. Most are named from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + tūn ‘settlement’; the one in Northamptonshire is (æt thǣm) æscum ‘(at the) ash trees’. Others have been assimilated to this from different sources. The one in Devon is ‘the settlement (tūn) of Æschere’, while the one in Hertfordshire is ‘the settlement of Ælli’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Photo of Elvie Renshaw. Excerpts from her 1959 Diary about the farewell for Bill Ashton.
October 18, Sunday Lou and I went to Bill Ashton’s missionary farewell in our sacrament meeting tonight. We had a large attendance out to Bill’s farewell. Jack and Jennie Jones came to Bill’s farewell …
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